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To: Slagle who wrote (62381)	4/21/2005 2:03:56 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

What a fantasy world you live in. 1) As of December 7, 1941, almost the entire population of Europe was under martial law, occupation or fascist dictatorship, either imposed by Hitler, Mussolini, Franco or the Soviets. China was already largely in the hands of the Japanese. African colonies were similarly administered by the "bad guys". Most of Latin America was in the hands of anti-democratic governments. North America, the UK and Switzerland enjoyed the sorts of liberty you claim. Though I dare say that Mahatma Gandhi and the Congress Party were not party to real democracy. Nor were the Dutch East Indies. Thus, it is preposterous to claim that 5 times more people were enslaved by totalitarian governments in 1950. By sheer numbers alone, India would make your claim ludicrous. In 1941, it was an unhappy colony. In 1950, it was a democracy. *** Re: When the US allied herself with the evil USSR that lent encouragement to every Stalin wannabe in the world and all these petty tyrants went on the warpath. I would love to have you start naming names. I'm at a loss to think of a single "wannabe" communist dicator that the U.S. encouraged. Quite to the contrary, the U.S. seemed to go out of its way to oppose nationalist leaders like Ho Chi Minh, Sukarno, Mossadeq, Arbenz, Lumumba, etc., etc. by undermining their administrations, labeling them Communist and when U.S. corporations could not steal assets to their heart's content actually engaging in assassinations and coups d'etat. Instead of re-reading your childish right wing fantasy books, I'd encourage you to try something a bit more honest: "Killing Hope : U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II_Updated Through 2003" by William Blum amazon.com